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THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH BY HIEROMONK MAKARIOS OF SIMONOS PETRA, MT. ATHOS

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Christian Education

Camp St. Sava, Jackson, CA - Our Diocesan Summer Camp was a great success again this year! All three weeks were filled to capacity! For over forty years, Camp Saint Sava has been the gathering place for Serbian Orthodox families and children in the West. Thousands upon thousands have spent memorable weeks in Jackson, California, where lasting friendships have been formed. The summer camp gives us the opportunity to reaffirm both our Christian faith and our unique cultural heritage. It is also the place where our children learn life lessons and Christian values.

St. Nikolai of Zicha Oratorical Festival 2015 - Theme: The wonder of the work of Holiness in us and its manifestation in our mission and outreach. Subtheme: The newly canonized Saints Mardarije and Sebastian as living pillars of holiness and mission of our time. We invite the young people in all of our parishes to enter for the St Nikolai of Zicha Oratorical Competition to be held at St. Steven’s Serbian Orthodox Cathedral on Saturday, September 5th, 2015 in Alhambra, California. Download the Participants Guide which includes instructions and forms. The Deadline for submission is August 15th.

FROM BISHOP MAXIM

“When we find love, we partake of heavenly bread and are made strong without labor and toil…Whoever has found love eats and drinks Christ every day and hour and from this is made immortal. ‘He that eats of this bread which I will give him, shall not see death unto eternity.’ Blessed is he who consumes the bread of love, which is Jesus…

Therefore, the man who lives in love reaps life from God, and, in this world, he breathes the air of the resurrection from herein; in this air, the righteous delight in the resurrection. Love is the kingdom that the Lord mystically professed to the Apostles, saying that they will eat in His Kingdom. For what else do His words, ‘You shall eat and drink at the table of My Kingdom’, mean other than love? For love is sufficient to nourish a man instead of food and drink.

This is ‘the winethatgladdens the heart of man.’ Blessed is he who partakes of this wine. Licentious men drank this wine and felt shame; sinners drank it and forgot the pathways of injustice; drunkards drank this wine and became fasters; the rich drank it and de­sired poverty; the poor drank it and were enriched with hope; the sick drank it and become strong; the unlearned where made wise.”